W ho doesn’t love an underdog? American Motors Corporation, the amalgamation of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson, was always in the shadow of America’s Big Three automakers. Yet the domestic ...

Formed in 1954 by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company, American Motors Corporation (AMC) was the country's fourth-largest automaker until it was purchased by Chrysler in 1988.

Back in 1954, the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation merged with the Hudson Motor Car Company to form the fourth-largest automobile company in the United States. Once all the Wall Street types did their ...

They were not disappointed. In the first quarter of its fiscal 1957 (October through December), the three-year-old merged hybrid (Nash-Kelvinator-Hudson) piled up a loss of $2,994,613 v.